History for January 16

History for January 16 - On-This-Day.com:
Andre Michelin 1853, Ethel Merman 1909 Dizzy Dean 1910



Norman Podhoretz 1930, Marilyn Horne 1934, A.J. Foyt 1935


1547 - Ivan the Terrible was crowned Czar of Russia.


1919 - The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages, was ratified. It was later repealed by the 21st Amendment.


1920 - Prohibition went into effect in the U.S.


1944 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of the Allied invasion force in London.


1970 - Colonel Muammar el-Quaddafi became virtual president of Libya.


1988 - Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder was fired as a CBS sports commentator one day after telling a TV station in Washington, DC, that, during the era of slavery, blacks had been bred to produce stronger offspring.


1991 - The White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm. The operation was designed to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.


1998 - Three federal judges secretly granted Kenneth Starr authority to probe whether U.S. President Clinton or Vernon Jordan urged Monica Lewinsky to lie about her relationship with Clinton.